Back At Lenox. After spending the weekend a Canaan Railroad Days in Canaan, Connecticut, the Roger Williams set passes the Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum in Lenox, Massachusetts on July 21, 2024. This is the first time this set has appeared here on the main in decades. Built by Budd for the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (NYNH&H) as an experimental set in 1957, “The Roger Williams” is an high-speed train set that largely used the existing design of the RDC (Rail Diesel Car) to create a six-car air conditioned train with cabs at both ends to facilitate rapid turns at terminals. The train included small traction motors that operated on third rail to allow for operation into Grand Central Terminal and operated across various routes in New England, thought not as a single train, into the Amtrak era. In 2023, the RDC Foundation, which assembled the three remaining cars, worked with the BSRM to move the set to Lenox, Massachusetts.
